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Stede Bonnet and Edward Teach haven't had a good night's sleep since they arrived at this damned inn. Every single night, horrific monsters visit them in their dreams. And with each passing day, their bodies grow weaker. They are being consumed by grief and guilt for Izzy's death, and the tension between them is palpable.
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When Alma returns from three months abroad after college graduation with a fiancée, Stede finds himself confronting his fear of change and his feelings of inadequacy as a father.
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The ship stops for supplies in Barbados, which has Stede wanting to introduce Isabella to Mary and the kids. Unfortunately, the ship is recognized which forces Stede, Isa, and Lucius to stay where they are until things cool down. Even worse, seeing the beautiful family Stede left behind has more than just a small effect on Isa, who is struggling to handle all the heavy emotions taking up space in her mind.
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- Part 25 of The Songbird Chronicles
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The man—Stede, Ed did hear Frenchie right, because his name tag says it right next to a sparkly ladybug sticker—gives Ed a little wave, just his fingers, even though Ed’s right there and they’re already talking. Cute. Ed mirrors it. “I’m an apprentice. Jim’s teaching me. I know I’m older than them but, well, you could say it’s kind of a new passion? They’ve just recently set me loose without supervision.”
That checks out. The guy doesn’t have many piercings, just a large hoop in one of his earlobes and a tiny stud shaped like a flower in his nose. No tattoos that Ed can see, either. Not that any of that is required to be a piercer, but it’s pretty strange to see an employee at a place like this who hasn’t already used a good portion of his body as a canvas. Stede’s skin, in comparison, is blank. Untouched.
Not that Ed is going to be weird about that or anything.
Ed meets a guy who's probably the love of his life when he's getting a new piercing, and then he somehow manages to fuck it all up. Or does he?
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Stede and Ed have shrunk. The cure lies in the giant land of Brobdingnag. But to get there, they must first go to Lilliput. Surely they can manage two voyages, especially when Lemuel Gulliver himself is with them. Right?
If only it were that easy...
The Sequel to We'll Always Have Lilliput.
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- Part 2 of Swift Seas
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Izzy is trying to move on from his trauma. Stede wants to help.
(This is a comic!)
(Update I can’t for the life of me figure out how to embed images I’ve tried everything and red every tutorial 😭 in the meantime you can read it on Twitter: https://x.com/starryredcat/status/1722616593354731943?s=46&t=KjEv9tAjFXiszF0rddVtdQ yes I also can’t embed links 😭)
(Update: IT WORKED!! IT FINALLLY WORKED OMG!!! Thank you SO MUCH @killerweasel on Twitter for your help, you were very patient I couldn't have done it without you!!)
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(Dentist!Ed/Izzy & patient!Stede)
"Ed had always dreaded the day when he will have to tell Stede he needed dental treatment. Being both his husband and the thing he hates the most was making him torned.
The husband part of him wants to shield Stede of anything that upsets him, but the dentist part of him knows that he needs to have regular checkups in order to take proper care of his teeth.
But when the mention of dentistry alone makes someone you love panic, how can you convince them to actually do that?"Series
- Part 7 of 🦷 Toothache 🦷
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Collection of ofmd dentist AUs featuring a lot of dental phobia and hurt/comfort fluff
These are super self indulgent lol, but maybe you’ll enjoy it too!Chap1: dentist!Izzy (p1) & patient!Stede
Chap2: dentist!Izzy (p2) & patient!Lucius
Chap3: dentist!Stede & patient!Ed
Chap4: dentist!Roach & patient!Ed
Chap5: dentist!Stede & patient!Izzy (p1)
Chap6: dentist!Stede & patient!Izzy (p2)
Chap7: dentist!Izzy/Ed & patient!Stede (p1)
Chap8: dentist!Izzy/Ed & patient!Stede (p2)
Chap9: dentist!Ed & patient!Izzy
Chap10: dentist!Stede & patient!Lucius
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- Part 1 of 🦷 Toothache 🦷
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(Dentist!Izzy & patient!Stede, patient!Lucius)
“S’nothing… just bit my tongue… I’m okay.”
“You bit your tongue while drinking?” Asked Izzy, raising an eyebrow.
“…yes…?”
“Stede you’ve been acting weird this week honey, why can’t you tell me what’s going on?”
Overwhelmed with embarrassment, Stede simply looked at the floor; his hand carefully massaging his cheek.
“Toothache?” Asked Izzy.
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- Part 2 of 🦷 Toothache 🦷
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Food shower food shower, it’s such a simple question, but Stede is right on the brink of tears when Ed gently suggests, “How about I order pizza, and then you can shower while we wait for it to be delivered?”. Relief floods over him, because that’s it, that’s what he wants, and Ed just knows.
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In which Ed bathes a very tired and overstimulated Stede, who has never had anyone take care of him like this before and has a lot of Feelings about it.
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The man typed for a moment before nodding. “Yep, got you right here. Hey, Ed! Doug! Your clients are here!”
Two men entered the lobby from the back hallway. One had floppy brown hair. The other was… well, mesmerizing was the only word Stede could think of that was anywhere near enough to describe him. Moon-streaked curls cascaded over constellations of freckles and sunspots. Tattoos lined the man’s arms, telling a story of stars and shipwrecks and games lost long ago. And his eyes… Stede had never seen such eyes, eyes that seemed to contain the entire universe.
“Hey there.” The silver-haired man’s voice was silky and rich. “Name’s Ed.” He shook Stede’s hand with a firm, velvety touch. Not taking his eyes off of Stede, he tilted his head toward the man at the counter. “Frenchie, which one of these lovely people is with me today?”
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Stede Bonnet has his gay awakening via therapist-prescribed couple's massage.
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Stede has a disasterous hook-up attempt with a man named Ed to try and get over his ex, only to run into Ed again a few days later at work. Too bad he told his friends that everything went well and he and Ed were seeing each other now. Ed also has an ex in town, and the idea of having a plus one to create some distance between them at events seems like a great idea. Just a two men fake dating their way through a whole lot of angst, what can go wrong.
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come on, come on, don’t leave me like this by iriswritesx
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
20 Dec 2023
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“Ed- Ed-” Choking on tears he hadn’t even realised were running down his cheeks, Stede swept the wet hair out of Ed’s face and cupped his cold cheeks, hands shaking. He was soaked — his nightgown clung to his body with the water, all of him freezing as a result.
Stede pressed his hand to his chest, held his own breath, and…
And Ed’s chest didn’t move. Not one bit.
“He’s- he’s not breathing!” Stede cried out, looked up at the crew around him as his own breathing neared cutting out. “He’s- someone help me!”
But Roach was the ship’s doctor, and at that moment he was coughing up the mouthfuls of sea water that he had swallowed in his rescue effort.
Stede looked back at Ed, and feeling more terrified than he ever had in his life, he pressed both hands to his chest and pushed until he could force it to move.
“Bonnet,” Izzy’s voice came from behind him, solemn, like Ed was gone for good already. “I don’t know-”
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or; ed almost dies in a raid, and stede has to save his life.
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i found myself running home to your sweet nothings by iriswritesx
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
13 Dec 2023
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Stede looked back up at Ed, and the joyous expression on his face was enough for Stede to smile back. His happiness was just so contagious. Ed’s anger could brew storms, could swallow ships up whole into the depths below — he had seen it first hand on many occasions — but his happiness? It was unmatched. It made the air around him seem lighter, made life seem better.
It made everything that they had been through to get to that point worth it.
“You didn’t have to do all of that,” Stede spoke softly as Ed perched on the bed beside his legs, a hand falling atop the covers to stroke Stede’s thigh through the fabric. “It’s too lovely, darling.”
“Pssh, nonsense. I’m just serving my Captain,” Ed wriggled his eyebrows and coaxed a laugh from Stede. “Now c’mon, eat your oats, I’ll get started on cracking this fucker open.” He passed over the bowl of oats before he took the orange into his hands, and pierced the skin at the top with his thumb as Stede spooned the first mouthful of his breakfast between his lips.
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or; ed effortlessly cheers stede up when he feels a little down with some breakfast in bed
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the rain is always gonna come if you’re standing with me by iriswritesx
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
06 Dec 2023
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It was such a silly thing, but it was enough for Stede’s eyes to well with tears, huffed out breaths as he leant against the wall and tried to keep from crying.
But he was so… so strung out, and tired, and overwhelmed, and he couldn’t even stop his stupid brain from overthinking he just-
He choked on a sob and, mortified, covered his mouth with his hands in the hopes that Lucius hadn’t heard him.
Once the damn had broken he had no hope of mending it again, so he stood like a child in the corner of his office and cried.
On days like that Stede wished he could just… stop existing. Disappear. Not have to deal with- with whatever this was.
He was still trying to muffle his crying into his hands when the door opened, and his eyes widened when he looked up to see who had walked in, expecting Lucius or Frenchie — the two who predominantly worked in the library section of his shop with him — but it was Izzy.
He looked just as shocked as Stede did, he clearly hadn’t been expecting to see Stede breaking down in the staff room.
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or; modern day steddyhands au, stede has a bad day with his anxiety
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- Part 1 of and now i see daylight
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“I just— You don’t need to know all of that. It’s— It’s nothing th—”
“It’s part of you,” Ed says, framed by the bright sky above. It’s so warm, all this light; Stede tries to focus, to ground himself in it, attempting to release the dark forest in his memory. “It’s not nothing.”
There’s nobody else here. Everyone else has given them space, a bubble to exist in together up on deck while Stede comes back to himself, and he’s grateful for it. He’s even more grateful that he doesn’t have an audience when he asks Ed, knowing he’ll tell him anything he asks for, “What do you want to know?”
And Ed, of course, answers, “Everything.”
for ofmd fluffvember, day twenty: comfort/reassurance.
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Stede has a panic attack, but Ed is there to get him through it! (We talk it through as a crew!)
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Podfic of "Nat 20" by Pastor_of_Muppets by Kninjaknitter
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
31 Mar 2023
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IMPORTANT NOTE: It is not necessary to understand or play D20 games or TTRPGS or know anything about this delicious world before reading and listening. Its a love story set in a gaming context.
Ed runs BlackBearded Games, and his crew is doing an exclusive short campaign. He's done these a million times. But he's immediately intrigued by the cute blonde who has zero idea what any TTRPG is, what class he'd like to play, or what he's doing. Ed, in an effort not to be Horny On Main decides to flirt in game...with predictable consequences.
Or: The D&D campaign AU no one else ever asked for!
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- Part 1 of Roll for Initiative
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As Stede’s dirty secret gets exposed, his wife kicks him out the house, he finds a place to stay by chance and coincidentally meets the man that started his collection.
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Pornstar au that no one asked for <3
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A recently divorced Stede is happy to finally be in a real relationship with someone he’s actually attracted to, but as far as he’s concerned, sex is something as crucial and consequential as life and death. And Stede has a penchant for romance novels, which only makes things worse - his boyfriend, Ed, the critically acclaimed historical fiction author, would surely lose all respect for him if he knew about his collection of frivolous smut, right?
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In which Stede contorts himself into a pretzel to do a tightrope balancing act trying to be the person he thinks Ed wants to date. This is like 80% Stede’s introspection on his own insecurities (and he has almost every single anxiety someone could possibly have around sex and romance, except internalized homophobia. There are also NO references to or implications of child abuse or bullying in this fic.) - I know that Stede can be wildly overconfident sometimes but he can also have terrible self esteem and this fic is firmly in that end of his mood spectrum. Had to post on anonymous because this is a little too much like posting my own therapy sesh to the internet.